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Download or read book Solid Air written by Daniel Klem Jr and published by Hancock House. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds kill themselves striking all types and sizes of human-built structures the world over. This book describes the cause of this universal problem and how to solve it.

Download or read book All that is Solid Melts Into Air written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

Download or read book Solid Air written by David Stavanger and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biomimetics written by Bharat Bhushan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of the general field of biomimetics and biologically inspired, hierarchically structured surfaces. It deals with various examples of biomimetics, which include surfaces with roughness-induced super-phobicity/philicity, self-cleaning, antifouling, low drag, low/high/reversible adhesion, drag reduction in fluid flow, reversible adhesion, surfaces with high hardness and mechanical toughness, vivid colors produced structurally without color pigments, self-healing, water harvesting and purification, and insect locomotion and stinging. The focus in the book is on the Lotus Effect, Salvinia Effect, Rose Petal Effect, Superoleophobic/philic Surfaces, Shark Skin and Skimmer Bird Effect, Rice Leaf and Butterfly Wing Effect, Gecko Adhesion, Insects Locomotion and Stinging, Self-healing Materials, Nacre, Structural Coloration, and Nanofabrication. This is the first book of this kind on bioinspired surfaces, and the third edition represents a significant expansion from the previous two editions.

Download or read book The Gig Book: Acoustic Hits written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need to quickly learn some songs for your gig? Going out busking with only 3 songs in your repertoire? Thankfully, The Gig Book: Acoustic Hits is here, jam packed with hits. Presented with melody line arrangements in standard notation, with guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the perfect reference for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians, allowing you to quickly understand and learn every song – how to sing it and what chords to play. The setlist includes: - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay [Otis Redding] - Babylon [David Gray] - Brown Eyed Girl [Van Morrison] - California Dreaming [The Mamas And The Papas] - Dear Prudence [The Beatles] - Dream Catch Me [Newton Faulkner] - Fairytale Of New York [The Pogues] - Father And Son [Cat Stevens] - Fields Of Gold [Sting] - Golden Brown [The Stranglers] - Half The World Away [Oasis] - Happy Together [The Turtles] - Hey Ya [Outkast] - Leave Right Now [Will Young] - Lovin’ You [Minnie Riperton] - Shooting Star [Bob Dylan] - Sing [Travis] - Stuck In The Middle With You [Stealer’s Wheel] - Teardrop [Massive Attack] - The Closest Thing To Crazy [Katie Melua] - The Sound Of Silence [Simon & Garfunkel] - Torn [Natalie Imbruglia] - Walk Right In [The Rooftop Singers] - What A Wonderful World [Louis Armstrong] And many, many more!

Download or read book Solid Ivory written by James Ivory and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James Ivory In Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, Maurice, and The Remains of the Day, tells stories from his remarkable life and career as one of the most influential directors of his time. At times, he touches on his love affairs, looking back coolly and with unexpected frankness. From first meeting his collaborator and life partner, Ismail Merchant, at the Indian Consulate in New York to winning an Academy Award at age eighty-nine for Call Me by Your Name; from seeing his first film at age five in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to memories of Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, The New Yorker magazine’s film critic Pauline Kael (his longtime enemy), Vanessa Redgrave, J. D. Salinger, George Cukor, Kenneth Clark, Bruce Chatwin, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Merchant—Ivory writes with invariable fluency, wit, and perception about what made him who he is and how he made the movies for which he is known and loved. Solid Ivory, edited by Peter Cameron, is an utterly winning portrait of an extraordinary life told by an unmatched storyteller.

Download or read book Hawaii Range Complex written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: